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Palliative vs Mollify - What's the difference?

palliative | mollify |

As an adjective palliative

is serving to palliate; serving to extenuate or mitigate.

As a noun palliative

is something that palliates, particularly a palliative medicine.

As a verb mollify is

to ease a burden, particularly worry; make less painful; to comfort.

palliative

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Serving to palliate; serving to extenuate or mitigate.
  • (medicine) Minimising the progression of a disease and relieving undesirable symptoms for as long as possible, rather than attempting to cure the (usually incurable) disease.

    • Synonyms

    * (medicine)

    Coordinate terms

    * (medicine) analgesic, lenitive

    Related terms

    * palliate * palliation

    See also

    * (Palliative care)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (medicine) Something that palliates, particularly a palliative medicine.
    • The radiation and chemotherapy were only palliatives .

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    mollify

    English

    Alternative forms

    * mollifie

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To ease a burden, particularly worry; make less painful; to comfort.
  • * 1893 , (Henry George), The Condition of Labor: An Open Letter to Pope Leo XIII, p. 104:
  • *:All that charity can do where injustice exists is here and there to somewhat mollify the effects of injustice.
  • * 1997 , A Government Reinvented: A Study of Alberta's Deficit Elimination Program, p. 408:
  • *:The draft Charter School Handbook issued in November 1994 sought to mollify concerns over teacher quality, if not ATA membership, by requiring teacher certification.
  • To appease (anger), pacify, gain the good will of.
  • * 1867 , , chapter 2:
    • Although this invitation was accompanied with a curtsey that might have softened the heart of a church-warden, it by no means mollified the beadle.
  • * 1916 , , chapter 5:
    • The angry goat was quite mollified by the respectful tone in which he was addressed.
  • To soften; to make tender
  • * 1662 , , Book III, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 113:
    • "Nor is it any more difficulty for him to mollifie what is hard, then it is to harden what is so soft and fluid as the Aire."
  • * 1724 , (William Burkitt), Expository Notes, with Practical Observations on the New Testament, p. 102:
  • *:By thy kindness thou wilt melt and mollify his spirit towards thee, as hardest metals are melted by coals of fire …

    • Synonyms

    * (to ease a burden) assuage, calm, comfort, mitigate, soothe * (to appease) appease, conciliate, pacify, placate, propitiate, satisfy * See also

    Related terms

    * emollient * mollification